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Johanna Joyce

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Professor, University of Lausanne 🇨🇭 and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research President-Elect, European Association for Cancer Research Mentor, Teacher, Advocate, Mum @joycelab.bsky.social

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Dec 11

#50ScientistsThatInspire 🧪

A collection created by @cellpress.bsky.social for #Cell50 🎉

Including inspiring #scientists and committed #advocates in their communities 🙌

In this 🧵 I'll share some of the interviews - including this Q&A we did 👇

Its an honor to be part of this incredible list 🙏 🙏

For cancer biologist Johanna Joyce, teaching is essential to being a well-rounded scientist

Advice on finding a supportive academic environment, building inclusivity in science, tackling scientific problems with an open mind, and more from Dr. Joyce.

www.cell.com

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EACR - European Association for Cancer Research @helloeacr.bsky.social · 8h

The EACR is proud to be part of the @aseica.bsky.social Congress this week!

Our President @yardenasamuels.bsky.social, President Elect @johannajoyce.bsky.social & Secretary General, Alberto Bardelli, are sharing their expertise in the scientific programme 🇪🇸

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 21h

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research is making a huge impact - in the US and globally 🙌

Very grateful for their support 🙏 - for an #ASPIRE award that funded our microbiome research, and for two #Momentum Fellows in our lab @lbejarano.bsky.social & @ale-matera.bsky.social

@themarkfdn.bsky.social

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research @themarkfdn.bsky.social · 22h

$34.5 million in awarded grants. 7 new interventional trials. 212 peer-reviewed publications. Read our newly released 2024 Annual Report to catch up on our grantees’ achievements and discover how we’re accelerating progress in the fight against cancer.
2024.themarkfoundation.org

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" including the identification of regulatory T cells

#NobelPrize #Tregs

@nobelprize.bsky.social 🧪🔬🏆

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 4d

A perfect place to relax

Have a wonderful weekend 🩷

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #photography

Photo of a sunset, with different shades of pink and orange painting the clouds in the sky. A couple in silhouette sit on a boat dock above the calm waters of the lake. Trees in silhouette frame the right of the image.

Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to join the annual #ASEICA cancer research congress in Bilbao 🇪🇸

An exciting agenda sharing our team's science in the opening keynote on Oct 8, joining a "Meet the Expert" on Wed evening, and the "Women Leading Science" roundtable Oct 9 lunchtime

@aseica.bsky.social @helloeacr.bsky.social

Lorea Valcárcel Jiménez @loreav.bsky.social · 5d

Join us next Thursday in the ASEICA woman round table with two inspirational women in science #AnaJanic and @johannajoyce.bsky.social at the 20th ASEICA Congress in Bilbao! @aseica.bsky.social @nuriaferrandiz.bsky.social

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6d

🙏 💚

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

apnews.com

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall, 1934-2025

An exceptional scientist, and a singular woman in science

#WomeninScience 🐒

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 7d

Such an important question to answer - why are more young people getting cancer?

#cancer #research 🧪🔬🧬

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?

www.nytimes.com

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EACR - European Association for Cancer Research @helloeacr.bsky.social · 9d

Why are cancers rising in under-50s? This is a critical and underexplored frontier in cancer biology, with major implications for risk prediction, prevention, and treatment.

The registration deadline for our upcoming virtual conference is 13 October ⏳

Secure your spot: eacr.org/conference/m...

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 11d

Meandering roads in the Lavaux vineyards, with the autumn colours just starting to appear... 🍂🍇

#BlueskyArtShow #TheRoad #photography #switzerland

Photo of vineyards in the foreground, with winding roads passing through. Woods on the left with the trees starting to show their autumn colours. Sun reflecting on the lake in the background.
Taken in Lavaux, Switzerland.

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 13d

Celebrating our annual international lab dinner 🎉 👨🏽‍🍳 🧑🏻‍🍳

We are so fortunate to have this amazing team of motivated scientists, and very talented cooks 🤩 sharing delicious food & culture from around the world 🌍🌎🌏

Grateful for our #international #team 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇸🇨🇭🇬🇧🇪🇬🇩🇪🇵🇹🇲🇽🇮🇪 - this truly enriches our science 🙏 🙌

Photo of all our team members at our international lab dinner, with some of the dishes at the front of the picture

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13d

The projected rise in global cancer deaths
1990 —5.9 million
2023—10.4 million
2050—18.8 million
is yet another reason we need to get primary prevention into high gear, which is now possible but not getting done
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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EACR - European Association for Cancer Research @helloeacr.bsky.social · 14d

Cancer is a shared, global challenge - one that demands collaboration to spark the innovations that save lives. Together, we advance research that is meaningful, inclusive, and benefits all 🌍

#WorldCancerResearchDay #WCRD

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Ludwig Cancer Research @ludwigcancer.bsky.social · 15d

A team led by Ludwig Lausanne’s @johannajoyce.bsky.social & former postdoc @alvarezprado.bsky.social reports a potential drug target whose loss in certain GBM cells triggers antiviral alarms to stall cell proliferation & makes GBM tumors in mice more amenable to anti-cancer immunity.
bit.ly/4nhZ7Bj

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EACR - European Association for Cancer Research @helloeacr.bsky.social · 15d

We offer EACR Travel Fellowships for early-career researchers to gain new skills abroad 🌍

Our Travel Fellowships Committee carefully reviews applications each month. Read on to learn what motivates them and what they look for in applicants:

magazine.eacr.org/introducing-...

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 16d

A beautiful end to a stormy day

#blueskymonday #sunset #photography

Sun setting over Lac Léman/ Lake Geneva, clouds painted in different shades of pink

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 17d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes the most hopeful things appear in such random places

On a mountain path, a wall rebuilt by young people from Switzerland, Ireland, N. Ireland, Israel and Palestine

“Building Walls Breaking Walls” - preserving heritage & biodiversity - the world needs more of this right now 💚

bwbw.ch/en

Sign on a stone wall in the Swiss Alps describing the “Building Walls Breaking Walls” project, where young people from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel, and Palestine come together to rebuild dry stone walls to preserve heritage and biodiversity.

www.natkultur.ch
www.bwbw.ch

English translation:

Young people from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel, and Palestine are preserving the cultural heritage of the Gryon region from 2021 to 2025. The "Building Walls Breaking Walls" project was founded by the NatureCulture association and gives young, engaged individuals the opportunity to contribute to the preservation of the environment and cultural heritage of the Vaudois Alps. Through collaborative work in nature, the project also creates a space for meeting, exchange, and new experiences.

Living Boundaries and Biodiversity
Building dry stone walls preserves an age-old and traditional construction technique, while also making an important contribution to the protection of natural diversity and the landscape. A dry stone wall represents a mosaic of different habitats within a small area. These walls are built without mortar or concrete. They thus offer valuable shelter for animals and plants: lizards, snakes, and amphibians, as well as insects, spiders, and shrews, find ideal refuge, hunting grounds, and wintering sites in the crevices. Ideally, there is a strip of grass along the side of the wall, which serves as a protected transition zone between the wall and the meadow for small animals and provides welcome food for insects and birds.

Acknowledgements
The NatureCulture association thanks everyone for their kind support and for the broad and varied contributions. In particular, we thank the young volunteers from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel, and Palestine, who contributed to the rehabilitation of this wall with their motivation, enthusiasm, and energy.

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Sylvain Gigan @sylvaingigan.bsky.social · 20d

Well hidden in a small corner of the main building of ETH Zurich, they have made a mini museum for Einstein in his former locker 😍

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 20d

A pleasure to speak at the amazing #ImmunoRad meeting in the heart of Paris, at the beautiful Sorbonne Université, and to share the research of our wonderful team!

Many thanks to all the organisers for such a stimulating conference at the intersection of #cancer #radiotherapy and #immunity 🙏 ☢️⚕️🧪🔬

Immunorad @immunorad.bsky.social · 20d

"Unraveling the complexity of cancer ecosystems following therapeutic intervention" from Pr Johanna Joyce in the "Immunosuppression" session.
Highlights of the talk on Linkedin➡️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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EACR - European Association for Cancer Research @helloeacr.bsky.social · 23d

How can patients help shape the future of cancer research? 💜

We're answering this question in our brand new virtual conference this October in collaboration with @OECI!

Learn more and register by 29 September: eacr.org/conference/p...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 23d

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Graphic with a blue background and light green dots. The text 'call for applications' appears in green, and 'Ausschreibung' in white. A white arrow on the right points diagonally upward.

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